At CES 2008, Belkin has taken the shrink wrap off, of some of it's newest iPod/iPhone accessories, firstly there's a new upgraded FM transmitter; the TuneBase FM and TuneCast auto, both use ClearScan technology to seek out the best frequency to transmit on.
Also Belkin has shown off the RockStar, which is a device that allows numerous iPod's and listens to be connected together via a "Hub" so users can listen to each others music, or it even allows you to use numerous iPods to mix music together, how well the latter works is at the moment just pure speculation.
Apple said Monday that Andrea Jung, chairman and chief executive officer of woman's beauty firm Avon Products, has joined the company's board, bringing its total number of directors to eight. Jung also serves on the board of directors of the General Electric Company and is a member of the New York Presbyterian Hospital board of trustees and the Catalyst board of directors.
"Andrea is a strong CEO and marketer and we look forward to benefiting from her insights and experience as a member of Apple’s board," said Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. "Andrea will be our eighth board member, and I think she will add a new dimension to our already lively board discussions."
Apple has agreed to pay movie studios closer to the $17 (£8.61) for it's movies rather than the present $14 (£7.09) which is closer to the money the movie studios receive for each DVD purchase.
The question is will Apple absorb the inflated cost? or will Apple pass it onto us? At the moment iTunes Movie purchases in the US retail for; $14.99 for newer films and $9.99 for older releases.
I personally if I lived in the US would want the ability to burn a copy of the film to DVD, if i was to be charged the cost of a physical DVD.
Samsung has unveiled a 128GB Solid State Disk, which is double it's previous largest SSD offering.
SSD drives consume only 1W of power, compared to SATA-II Platter HDDs which consume 3.0W+ on average. Also with not containing any mechanical parts they are less prone to errors caused by motion; i.e. being dropped.
Intel today released it's first 45 nanometer Core 2 based processors, utilizing the same Penryn architecture as it's desktop and server offerings, the new manufacturing process allows Intel to increase the clock speeds inside of a mobile form factor without affecting power usage and heat generation. The chip also offers greater performance, and features a larger L2 Cache which is 50% larger than previous Core 2 mobile processors.
